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The-Journey-Spring-2020.Pdf spring 20 Active ideas Secret London Let’s go! 2020: the year you Lesser-known treats Four pages of kids’ fun try something new? in the capital and games inside Why settle for just one Snowdonia National Park adventure? Become a YHA member and explore more with 10% off every booking – including pre-booked meals. Plus, priority notice of special offers and a YHA Manchester whole host of benefits from our tourism and retail partners. Join today yha.org.uk/join YHA The Sill at Hadrian’s Wall YHA Treyarnon Bay YHA Tanners Hatch Surrey Hills YHA Hawkshead The_Journey_B5_adverts_spring_2020.indd 1 26/02/2020 11:34 Why settle Hello …and welcome to the first issue of 2020 of The Journey. Bring out the bunting! This for just one year is a special one for us at YHA, marking nine decades since our formation as a national Snowdonia National Park organisation. Various celebrations will be taking place to tie in with our 90th anniversary, including a bumper souvenir issue of The Journey in early summer. Plenty has changed in the years since we first came into being, but our core aims and values – inclusion, wellbeing and adventure? access for all to nature and culture – remain the same. On which note, we hope the following pages bring you some inspiration for your travels over the next few months. We visit London, speak to Paralympian Steve Bate and take a look at some of the most family-friendly hostels Become a YHA member and explore more in the network. Happy reading! with 10% off every booking – including pre-booked meals. Plus, priority notice of special offers and a YHA Manchester whole host of benefits from our tourism and 8 12 14 retail partners. Hostel hero Golden boy Little-known London Join today Rob Abrey on his mammoth An interview with star We round up some of the yha.org.uk/join fundraising bike ride Paralympian Steve Bate capital’s hidden delights 19 23 26 Let’s go! Your year of Family-friendly adventure hostels Four pages packed with things to do for kids Mountain-biking? SUP? Try Nine of our favourite YHA The Sill at Hadrian’s Wall something new in 2020 hostels for bringing the kids YHA Treyarnon Bay 30 34 39 Tree-spotting Hostel guide Competition The lowdown on some of The definitive list of YHA Win a KEELA Belay Pro our most common trees hostels in England and jacket Wales YHA Tanners Hatch Surrey Hills YHA Hawkshead The_Journey_B5_adverts_spring_2020.indd 1 26/02/2020 11:34 A pivotal journey This photo shows a group of friends from Merseyside (and an assortment of nattily dressed bystanders) on a trip to Germany in July 1929. Their mission? To experience for themselves the youth hostels which had been opening there since 1909. They returned home deeply impressed, with a resolve to set up an equivalent organisation in Britain. The young man in the front row, wearing shorts and an open blazer, is Tom Fairclough. In December 1929, he became the first regional secretary of the Merseyside Branch of the British Youth Hostels Association. The following April – 90 years ago this year – the national movement was formed, granting young people access to adventure on an unprecedented scale. 5 Your YHA discoveries Each issue we’ll be sharing some special moments you’ve had while staying with YHA. We’d love to hear about your most memorable experiences at [email protected] “I wouldn’t let the frosty, icy cold morning put me off my cycling around the Cotswolds on my few days off work. Staying at YHA Stratford-upon-Avon for the night, staff welcomed me with open arms. The next morning, a hearty English breakfast set me up for my circular 150-mile cycle ride around the Cotswolds via Mickleton, Chipping Campden, and Broadway. I finally made my way to YHA Cotswolds in Cirencester. Then it was a return journey the next day to YHA Stratford- upon-Avon.” Christopher Matthews “After reading The Journey during our stay at YHA Boggle Hole, my friend immediately joined as a member as she was so impressed by what YHA has to offer. I’ve always loved YHA and am so pleased and impressed about the quality of accommodation, and the friendliness and professionalism of all your staff, that I can't wait to visit as many locations as I can. Thank you everyone and keep up the fantastic work you do. Your reputation is recognised all over the world.” Debbie Gill “My boyfriend and I stayed at YHA The Sill at Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland in January and had a great time. The weather was cold and windy but it didn’t stop us getting out. The Wall is just a short walk away. Unfortunately the clouds meant we couldn’t stargaze, but we will be back to take full advantage of the dark skies.” Paula Gardner Spotted on screen Lights… camera… action! Our landmark 90th anniversary isn’t passing unnoticed. In mid-February, the BBC’s Inside Out East Midlands dedicated a 10-minute prime-time slot to the history and evolution of “one of our best-known British institutions”: YHA (England & Wales). Presenter Mike Dilger, best known as The One Show’s wildlife expert, visited us in the Peak District to shoot the section. Interspersing modern footage with vintage recordings of 1970s hostellers, he also interviewed CEO James Blake and YHA historian Duncan Simpson, as well as joining a group of inner-city schoolchildren on their first activity break. James spoke about the devastating impact of foot-and-mouth disease in the early 2000s, highlighting how well our organisation has been able to bounce back. Duncan, meanwhile, pointed out the ways in which hostels had modernised to suit today’s needs (a reminder to be grateful, perhaps, that there’s no longer an obligatory lights-out curfew!), while underlining the fact that YHA’s underlying ethos and ambitions have stayed the same. And as for the schoolchildren? Their smiles said it all. You might also have spotted Duncan on another recent BBC programme. In January, an episode of Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys saw the broadcaster call in at the recently refurbished YHA Street in Somerset, where Duncan talked him through the many ways in which the organisation continues to make a meaningful difference to young people around the country. Staying on track, if you’ll excuse a rail pun… 7 Four days, three nights, 386 miles in the saddle A Business Intelligence Developer with YHA for the past three years, Rob Abrey set himself a mammoth fundraising challenge in late 2019: a self-supported cycle across England and Wales. He’s this issue’s hostel hero. Rob Abrey knows plenty about staying to challenge myself,” he explains. “The on the move. Growing up as the son of a route for this particular challenge was railwayman, he was born in South Africa but a combination of two routes, the Trans- has since lived all over the UK, as well as in Cambrian Way and Coast to Coast mountain Paris. He developed a love of hiking from bike routes. Both of these are typically his parents and – thanks to a bike built from completed in three days and two nights, spare parts and gifted to him by a great but I decided to do them both in four days uncle – has been cycling since he was seven. and three nights, self-supported, carrying But even for a lifelong bike nut, the everything I’d need for both day and night.” ride he decided to undertake in the autumn Put another way, he would be tracing of 2019 was something remarkable. “I love a wriggly, west-to-east route across the entirety of Wales and England, camping section I was welcomed by a committee of on any piece of flat, dry land he could find. sheep and some sunshine. Now this might “The total route distance was 386 miles, seem silly, but when you've been walking with 43,339 ft of climbing,” he says. “It for about two hours and not seen a solitary made perfect sense to raise money for YHA, creature for some time, sheep and a touch to support the great things we do as an of sunshine are a truly wonderful thing!” organisation – particularly for young people And the highlights? “There were so with challenging lives. This was actually many. Riding through the mist at sunrise the second time I’ve done a challenge like in the Cambrian mountains, making fresh this for YHA. For me, a bike is the perfect tracks in the dew and dreaming of bacon adventure tool, allowing you to cover a sandwiches. Fording the River Duddon in good distance while still really getting off the Lake District and living to tell the tale. the beaten track.” Overall, it was just great to be able to get His training regime was helped by the out and have an adventure. It taught me fact that he frequently cycles to work at our that a human being can endure a lot and Matlock national office – a 30-mile round trip still come back for more, and also that we – but the ride itself was still an epic test of have so much on our doorstep. You don’t stamina. “It was some of the toughest days’ need to travel far to really take a break from riding I've ever endured, but it wouldn’t have it all and enjoy what wonderful England and been a challenge if it was easy!” he recalls.
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